Traditional Chinese Medicine

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

Giving up smoking can be extremely difficult for people, with bad moods,
cravings and that lightheaded feeling propelling people to rush and buy
a pack even weeks after they successfully stopped.

However, drinking a decoction prepared for the smokers can help them quit smoking quickly.

Ingredients: Yu Xin Cao 30g; Di Long 15g; Yuan Zhi 15g; Huo Xiang 10g; Bo He 10g; Gan Cao 10g; Ren Shen 5g.

Administration: Decoct the above ingredients for oral administration. Each day one dose, drink in five times.

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Mulberry Leaf-Folium Mori(桑叶)-Herb for dispersing wind and clearing heat

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

Chinese Name: Sang Ye (桑叶)
English Name: Mulberry Leaf
Latin Name: Folium Mori

Properties:
This herb is bitter and sweet in flavour, cold in nature and acts on
the lung and liver channels. Light in quality for lifting, floating and
mainly dispersing, and sweet and cold for clearing heat and moistening,
it can disperse pathogenic wind-heat from the lung channel, moistening,
arresting cough, purging the liver-fire, nourishing Yin and improving
eyesight It is often used to treat wind-heat affected by exopathogens,
liver-fire and conjunctival congestion.

Actions: Dispersing wind-heat, clearing heat from the liver and improving eyesight.

Indications:
1.
The herb is often used in combination with chrysanthemum flower, such
as Sang Ju Decoction, to treat wind-heat type of exterior syndromes,
fever, headache and sore throat; and with ophiopogon root and apricot
kernel for clearing heat from the lung, moistening and arresting cough,
such as Sang Xing Decoction, to treat impairment of the lung by dry
heat, dry cough with less sputum, sore throat and red tongue.

2.
It is often used in combination with chrysanthemum flower, cassia seed
and prunella spike for clearing heat from the liver, purging fire to
improve eyesight, to treat flaring-up of the liver-fire, conjunctival
congestion and swelling pain; and with chrysanthemum flower, uncaria
stem with hooks and other herbs for calming the liver and suppressing
Yang hyperactivity of the liver, to treat exuberant liver-yang,
dizziness and headache.

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Sang Ju Yin(Folium Mori and Chrysanthemum Decoction)桑菊饮

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

Chinese Name: Sang Ju Yin(桑菊饮)
English Name: Folium Mori and Chrysanthemum Decoction

Ingredients:
Sang Ye(Folium Mori) 1.5g; Ju Hua(Flos Chrysanthemi) 3g; Xing Ren(Semen
Armeniacae Amarum) 6g; Lian Qiao(Fructus Forsythiae) 5g; Bo He(Herba
Enthae) 2.5g; Jie Geng(Radix Platycodi) 6g; Gan Cao(Radix
Glycyrrhizae)(not prepared) 2.5g; and Wei Gen(Rhizoma Phragmitis)6g

Administration: Decoct the above ingredients for oral administration.

Actions: Disperse wind and clears heat, diffuse the lung to stop cough

Indications: Onset of wind and warm syndrome marked by cough, mild body fever, slight thirst, a floating and rapid pulse.

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Xiao Qing Long Tang(Minor Blue Dragon Decoction)小青龙汤

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

Chinese Name: 小青龙汤

English Name: Xiao Qing Long Tang(Minor Blue Dragon Decoction)

Ingredients: Ma Huang(Herba Ephedrae) with jionts removed 9g; Shao
Yao(Radix Paeoniae) 9g; Xi Xin(Herba Asari) 6g; Gan Jiang(Rhizoma
Zingiberis) 3g; Zhi Gan Cao(Radix Glycyrrhizae Praeparata) 3g; Gui
Zhi(Ramulus Cinnamonmi) peeled 9g; Ban Xia(Rhizoma Pinelliae)(washed) 9g
and Wu Wei Zi(Fructus Schisandrae)6g

Administration: Decot the above ingredients for oral administration

Actions: Release the exterior and expels cold, warms the lung and removes fluid retention.

Indications: It is applicable to externally contacted with wind-cold
with internal injury and water-fluid syndrome. The clinical
manifestations are aversion to cold, fever, anhidrosis, chest stufiness,
asthma, cough, profuse thin sputum, or sputum retention, cough with
dyspnea, inability to lie in a horizontal position, or body pain wiht
heavy sensation, edema of the face and limbs, whitish and slippery
tongue coating and a floating pulse.

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The Six Evils (External Causes)六淫

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

The Six Evils is also known as six climatic exopathogens. It refers
to six external factors that cause illness in TCM. They are wind, fire,
cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness.

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Jiu Wei Qiang Huo Tang(Notopterygium Decoction of Nine Ingredients)九味羌活汤

: langshancn; December 15th, 2011

Ingredients: Qiang Huo(Rhizoma seu Radix Notopterygii) 6g; Fang
Feng(Radix Ledebourriellae) 6g; Cang Zhu(Rizoma Atractyloidis) 6g; Xi
Xin(Herba Asari) 2g; Chuan Xiong(Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong) 3g; Bai
Zhi(Radix Angelicae Dahuricae) 3g; Sheng Di Huang(Radix Rehmanniae) 3g;
Huang Qin(Radix Scutellariae) 3g; Gan Cao(Radix Glycyrrhizae) 3g.

Administration: Decot all the above ingredients for oral administration.

Actions: Induces sweating and eliminates dampness, simultaneously clears heat in the interior.

Indications: Externally contracted wind, cold and dampness synolrome
with interior heat syndrome. The clinical manifestations are aversion to
cold, fever, anhidrosis, headache, stiff nape, aching pain of limbs and
body, bitter flavour with slight thirst, a white or yellow tongue
coating, and a floating pulse.

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How To Cure Mouse Bite

: langshancn; December 6th, 2011

If you are unlucky and happen to be bit by the mouse, please don't worry
too much. There is one simple way to cure the bite. Please follow the
below steps:

1. Firstly try to find some hairs of cat and burned to ash.

2. Secondly please prepare some musk.

3. Thirdly use the saliva to mix ash and musk thoroughly.

4. Fourthly apply the mixed ash and musk to the bitten area.

If not cured timely the mouse bit can leads to serious aftermath. This is effective way to cure it by TCM.

The Leg Bit by the Mouse

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Bian Que: The Founder of Pulse-Taking Diagnosis in TCM

: langshancn; December 2nd, 2011

Bian Que, also named Qin Yueren, lived in
Bohai (present Renqiu City, Hebei Province) during the Spring and Autumn and the
Warring States Period. He was accomplished in curing all diseases, which made
him a famous doctor of the period and an outstanding representative of Pre-Qin
medicine. Owing to his magic hand in restoring people's health comparable to the
legendary doctor Bian Que, the later generations then honored him the same
title.

Bian Que had an open mind and was curious and assiduous in
studying medical skills at a young age. He put his experience in medical
treatment into practice for common people and practiced medicine around the
states to free people from illness and suffering. His skilled diagnosis and
remedies were recorded in Records of the Grand Historian. He was a master in
many fields, including medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics and
ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology, with his treatment methods ranging from
stone-needle acupuncture, acupuncture and moxibustion, massage, decoction to
heat-ironing with Chinese medicine.

Bian Que's medical viewpoints and
treatment skills served as a proof that the medical science during the Spring
and Autumn and the Warring States Period was growing mature onto a progressive
track free from the bondage of witchcraft and theology. Moreover, Bian Que also
contributed a lot to the emergence of the unique pulse-taking diagnosis in
TCM.

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Xining County: The Land of Navel Orange

: langshancn; December 1st, 2011

Xining County is located in the
southwest of Hunan Province in central of China. Its unique climate is good for
growing Navel Orange. There are 0.3 million mu of Navel Orange planted here, the
annual output is more than 0.153 tons. The planted area of Navel Orange is the
widest in the China. It earned the name of Land of Navel Orange.

In
recent years, the travel industry combining with the Navel Orange industry to
put forward the development of Xinning county.

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Red Wedding is Fashionable among China Young People

: langshancn; December 1st, 2011

Though we are in 21st century, many
of China young people who born in 80' of last century cherish the simple life in
the "Red" time in China. The "Red Wedding" is popular among these young
people.

Yesterday, a couple from Shanxi Province held a "Red Wedding".
The bridegroom riding bicycle and leading his five comrades singing "red song".
The bride seems very exciting and hailing "Long Live the Chairman Mao, Long Live
the People"

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